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Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI)

Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI) is a 3-year literacy intervention for K-3 teachers and students. The intervention provides teachers with training seminars (56 hours total across 3 years), individual coaching (105 hours total), and facilitated grade-level meetings (24 meetings total). In Year 1, CLI provides classrooms with books and materials aligned with the intervention model. CLI selects K-3 teachers from each school to serve as Instructional Lead Teachers (ILTs) who receive additional coaching (25 hours total) and seminars (6 total) to mentor fellow teachers and develop model classrooms. CLI also holds school-level leadership team meetings and district-level meetings with principals and administrators to track literacy progress. The intervention uses the Teacher's Effective Literacy Practice (TELP) framework to guide training and coaching scope and sequence.

2020

108 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Physical Science and Engineering Invention Kit Curriculum

7th Grade, 8th Grade

The Physical Science and Engineering Invention Kit Curriculum is a project-based engineering curriculum for middle school students (Grades 7 or 8) that teaches key science and engineering principles through constructing modern interpretations of 19th-century inventions. Students build three invention kits sequentially in their engineering elective courses: the Solenoid, the Linear Motor, and the Linear Generator. Each kit includes make activities (building components like continuity testers and solenoids), lab activities (demonstrating principles with step-by-step guides and guiding questions), and design challenges (open-ended exercises to create functioning objects). The kits incorporate 2D and 3D fabrication technology (laser cutters, 3D printers) and electronic CAD files. Teachers access kit materials online, including teacher guides with standards alignment, materials lists, and assessment suggestions. Students also take physical science courses concurrently. The curriculum aims to build understanding of magnetism, electricity, and electromagnetism, along with skills in computer-aided design, manufacturing, soldering, and scientific observation.

2019

Cost per student

N/A

Florida's Developmental Education Reform under Senate Bill 1720

Postsecondary

Florida's Developmental Education Reform under Senate Bill 1720 is a comprehensive statewide policy implemented in 2014 across all 28 Florida College System institutions. The reform made developmental education optional for recent Florida public high school graduates (entering grade 9 in 2003/04 or later) and active-duty military personnel, while nonexempt students (approximately one-third of first-time-in-college students, including those from out-of-state schools, private schools, home schools, and those without standard Florida high school diplomas) remained required to take placement tests and enroll in developmental courses if scoring below college-ready. For all students requiring developmental education, the reform mandated accelerated instructional strategies including modularized, compressed, co-requisite, or contextualized courses instead of traditional semester-long courses. Additionally, all institutions were required to provide enhanced advising and academic support services to all incoming students regardless of placement status. The reform targeted math as a critical gatekeeper subject, with students progressing through sequences from lower-level developmental math through upper-level developmental math to Intermediate Algebra (first college-level) and finally gateway math courses.

2021

Cost per student

N/A

Word Knowledge Instruction

5th Grade

Word Knowledge Instruction (WKI) is a classroom instructional program designed to enhance the word knowledge of grade 5 students by teaching morphological awareness—knowledge of Greek and Latin roots, base words, prefixes, and suffixes—to help students infer the meaning of new words and expand their vocabulary. WKI consists of 15-minute lessons taught 4 days a week for 20 weeks to the entire English language arts (ELA) class in high-poverty, low-performing elementary schools. Each week of WKI lessons focuses on a single affix (prefix or suffix), covering 20 affixes in all. WKI lessons explicitly teach morphological awareness by deconstructing and constructing words; composing sentences; discussing the meaning of words presented in connected text; defining words, pairing them with synonyms, and linking them to existing knowledge; contrasting base words with new words derived by adding affixes; and creating family trees by adding affixes to base and root words. WKI developers trained teachers over two and a half days in summer 2018 and provided ongoing support throughout the 20 weeks of implementation.

2021

16 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Getting Ready

Preschool

Getting Ready is a relationally based parent engagement intervention promoting school readiness for preschool-aged children (ages 3-5) who are low-income and at educational risk due to developmental concerns in language, cognition, and/or social-emotional development. Early childhood educators (ECEs) use a set of intentional interaction strategies with parents during home visits and parent-ECE conferences (12 contacts over two years, 60 minutes each) to support parent-child connections and strengthen collaborative partnerships between ECEs and parents. The strategies include establishing parent-child interactions, communicating openly, affirming competencies, focusing attention, sharing information and resources, using observations and data to guide decisions, making mutual/joint decisions, and modeling and suggesting. ECEs also implement structured collaborative planning procedures including data review, parent-child observations, and creation of partnership plans to promote shared responsibility for children's school readiness. ECEs receive a one-day training institute at the onset and ongoing bimonthly coaching (90-minute sessions, approximately 32 contacts over two years) to support their delivery of the intervention.

2019

High

Cost per student

$2,510.04

Collaboration and Reflection to Enhance Atlanta Teacher Effectiveness (CREATE) Teacher Residency Program

Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

CREATE is a three-year teacher residency program for preservice teachers completing their credential at Georgia State University College of Education and Human Development (GSU CEHD). The program targets teachers who will work in high-needs schools in Atlanta Public Schools. During Year 1 (preservice teaching year), residents complete their student-teaching practicum with a Cooperating Teacher in local schools. In Year 2 (first year as teacher of record), most residents are paired with another CREATE teacher in a single classroom. In Year 3 (second year as teacher of record), residents become the sole teacher of record in their own classroom. Throughout all three years, residents receive support through Together Time meetings focused on Critical Friendship and Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), access to mentor teachers, and the CREATE program team. Between Years 1 and 2, residents participate in the Summer Resident Academy (SRA) to develop social emotional competencies, pedagogical skills, content knowledge, and confidence. CREATE has evolved to incorporate equity-centered practices to develop critically-conscious, compassionate, and skilled educators committed to teaching practices that prioritize racial justice and interrupt inequities.

2021

108 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP)

7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

The College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) is a professional development program designed to improve students' source-based argument writing by building teachers' understanding and skill in teaching argument writing. The program targets grades 4-5 and 7-10 teachers and students in rural districts. C3WP features three core components delivered cyclically: (1) intensive, sustained professional development (45 hours annually) focused on classroom enactment through strategies like demonstration lessons, co-teaching, and co-planning; (2) multi-day instructional resources (text sets with multiple perspectives) that teach discrete argument-writing skills progressively; and (3) formative assessment tools (Using Sources Tool and Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Protocol) for analyzing student work to inform instruction. Teachers are expected to complete at least four cycles of instruction annually, with each cycle incorporating one multi-day unit, plus regular Routine Argument Writing exercises. The program is delivered by local Writing Project site leaders who train teacher leaders through 30-hour Advanced Institutes, where teacher leaders implement C3WP in their own classrooms before supporting other teachers. Local sites have flexibility to adapt the model to district needs while maintaining fidelity to the three core components.

2021

Cost per student

N/A

Coding as Another Language using ScratchJr (CAL-ScratchJr)

2nd Grade

Coding as Another Language using ScratchJr (CAL-ScratchJr) is a curriculum developed by Boston College's DevTech Research Group that integrates coding and computational thinking with literacy skills for second grade students. The curriculum consists of 24 lessons of 45 minutes each, delivered during regular school hours in classroom settings. Students use the ScratchJr app on tablets to create interactive stories and games while learning powerful ideas of computer science integrated with literacy. The curriculum includes both unplugged activities and on-screen coding. Before implementation, teachers receive professional development training including two 2-hour workshops (4 hours total), completing their own ScratchJr project, and exploring curriculum lessons. Teachers also have access to onsite and virtual coaching support during implementation.

2023

Cost per student

N/A

START-Play (Sitting Together and Reaching to Play)

Infant/Toddler

START-Play is a physical therapy intervention for infants aged 7-16 months with neuromotor disorders who are beginning to sit. The intervention embeds cognitive constructs (means-end relations, object permanence, object affordances, joint attention) within motor activities focused on sitting and reaching. Physical therapists deliver the intervention twice weekly for 12 weeks (up to 24 sessions, averaging 51.5 minutes each) through home visits with the infant and at least one parent or caregiver. The intervention advances motor and cognitive skills together at the "just-right" level through parent-therapist brainstorming, allows movement flexibility without rigid adherence to normal patterns, and is provided within a social, engaging context guided by degrees of joint attention. Physical therapists received training including review of theoretical evidence, in-person hands-on training with infants, ongoing critique and feedback on treatment sessions, and refresher training until reaching preset adherence levels.

2020

Moderate

8 Weeks

Cost per student

$976.87

Multiple Media Vocabulary Intervention

Preschool

Multiple Media Vocabulary Intervention is a vocabulary learning program for preschoolers that uses both traditional storybooks and video presentations of comparable story content to promote incidental word learning. The intervention targets preschool-aged children (approximately 4-5 years old) and delivers stories through either a single medium (book-book or video-video) or two different media (book and video) in a counterbalanced order. Each story presentation lasts 5.5-6 minutes and includes 9 target Tier 2 vocabulary words (3 nouns, 3 adjectives, 3 verbs) repeated 4-5 times within each story. Children receive two exposures to stories approximately one hour apart, for a total of 8-10 repetitions of each target word. The intervention uses animated stories from Peep and the Big Wide World, a PBS science program designed for preschoolers. For book reading, a research assistant reads the story in a lively, animated manner with minimal interaction. For video viewing, children watch independently with the assistant present but not interacting. The intervention requires no special training for implementation beyond instructions to read engagingly and move quickly past child comments.

2021

Moderate

0.0 Weeks

Cost per student

$854

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